2014/01/31

A deaf person using his hearing ear dog to help him withhis unusual, but dangerous job? Yes – as a truck driver!This job is dangerous for many reasons, and hearing truckdrivers must listen for noise and sounds while on theroad. Yes, deaf truck drivers deal with these samedangerous situations, using their eyes instead of theirears. But for one deaf truck driver, he uses his hearingear dog to alert him to noise and sounds. Seems he’s theonly deaf truck driver to use a hearing ear dog.

— a national network of deaf realtors

Jackie Roth, a deaf realtor in New York, who was profiledin DeafDigest a while ago, is slowly building up a networkof deaf realtors – to better serve the deaf that wantto buy or sell houses anywhere in USA. How good is thenetwork? So far, she has referred 15 deaf clients tothe network of 9 agents – resulting in seven deals,plus 3 more soon-to-be deals! It takes time to builda bigger network but this is a great start!

— Netflix still a joke in the Deaf Community

We have a love-hate relationship with Netflix. Theyare the best when it comes to a wide choice of videosto watch. They are the worst when it comes to captions.Netflix, after much arguing with us, has promised tocaption all of their videos. But the quality of theirvideos stinks! A national news website recentlyscolded Netflix for not doing much to improve thequality of their captions. Does Netflix care? Probablynot because their #1 worry is making more and moremoney!